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The inland sea was whipped by storms. It stirred and muttered with a life of its own. Four times each day it ran into or out of its maze of inlets, passes, channels and sounds. It grumbled around the points, dashed over the reefs, piled up and roared through the narrows .... When it tired and ebbed away, whispering through the beds of bobbing kelp, it left these fragments of its rage littered yards deep on miles of stony beaches.
Alan Morley,Vancouver, Mitchell Press, Vancouver, 1961, p. 1.
PLACE: Vancouver
TIME: pre 1900
... Charming girls swung in hammocks on summer lawns, or sang "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" in the dusk at beach picnics; mandolins tinkled on front porches in the evenings, and rag-time tunes drifted down the streets.
The Edwardian Age has come to Vancouver.
Alan Morley,Vancouver, Mitchell Press, Vancouver, 1961, p. 129.
PLACE: Vancouver, B.C.
TIME: ca. 1910
...Graham Co.'s Pioneer Mill was complete, with "two center-discharge waterwheels of 50 horsepower and the 22-inch planing mill." The infant scream of the mill's puny (by later standards) head saws was the birth-cry of the city.
Alan Morley,Vancouver, Mitchell Press, Vancouver, 1961, p. 25.
PLACE: Vancouver, B.C.
TIME: ca. 1910
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